This is one of my all time favorite quotes, but I had always heard it attributed to another great writer with a talent for the insult: Mark Twain. It's included in "The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain":Originally Posted by AuntShecky
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ee_...0twain&f=false
but I don't know if it can actually be found in his letters or any other actual documents of his, or what the original source might be...
Last edited by billl; 08-13-2012 at 03:49 PM.
Do I detect a note of sarcasm ? I ask only because the recipient might take it as a compliment.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
I've never heard of this book except for on litnet and reddit. I never would have guessed that a sadomasochistic book would become mainstream, that's surprising. The way I've heard it described, it sounds like Secretary. I loved that movie.
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-Pi
I'm starting to think I should maybe at least skim a few chapters, just to get an idea of what might be expected of me.
I read the first few pages on Amazon. It left me totally bemused as to what all the fuss was about. It reads like the worst part of your teenage years - continuous babbling stream of consciousness of the worst kind of inanity. Made me disappointed to be a woman, that my fellow gender would fall for such utter cr*p in droves. Having read some reviews of the book the worst thing about it seems to be not the sex but the fact that it seeks to romanticise what is in essence nothing more than an abusive relationship in which a supposidly educated women willingly signs away her freedom for the sake of...well I've not really figured that big out. A large **** by all accounts.
If you want to read a good S&M book, read The Story of O, for general erotica, it'd be hard to surpass Anais Nin. For sexy fiction, Nicholson Baker has some interesting takes (I'm just reading The Fermata and it's pretty sexy).
There's much, much better erotica out there.
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Whoa, slow down, that was a lot to digest in that paragraph, women are signing away their freedom in droves or something?
"The Fermata", though--that's a great read!
That's it, I'm reading it.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I wonder if Mrs P would like it for Christmas? It would make a change from Georgette Heyer.
ay up
Ooo, you HAVE to do a review on this thread once you're done!
Props to you if you can get through it, Juniper. I thought of reading it too, but when I read some excerpts of some of the more elicit parts (because, really, what else is there to be interested in?) I found the prose so astoundingly horrible, I just couldn't do it. Plus, the sex parts I read seem along the lines of any online erotica one can read for free.
I read some of the reviews on Amazon...hilarious to say the least.
hahaha, No. Women are READING it in droves.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Yep there are some excellent reviews on Amazon. Also this one on Goodreads which, I think, tells you everything you need to know
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I will, I'll be like a litnet inside investigator. I'm having a hard time finding it online though, so I'll have to wait until I'm in Van because they have actual libraries (and I'll be damned if I'm paying to read something that is by most accounts terrible).
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
Ahahahahaha! Thanks for that!Yep there are some excellent reviews on Amazon. Also this one on Goodreads which, I think, tells you everything you need to know
Absolutely, my thoughts exactly.
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